Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-12-15
THE RAGE FOR TALIsMANs.
The Favorite Fetch of Mrs. Langt-yi sarah
Bernhardt and others.


Bernhardt and others.
Ii il the fashion now to have fetch
something to love. to chid, To beat,
to swear BIZ. TO dream ON, 10 talk to,
~ reason with and TO worship as moth.
/ ing mortal Or material j. worShipped.
/ 1t may be "A button without shank,
picked up from the marble slab in
! Turkish bath; a bangle found i'm 4
street car with an mdccIpherable
4 monogram on one side and a date on
/ the other, in which case there will be
fatality in the letters and luck in the
Numbers, combine them as one may.
Such things as daggers. old coins,
/ madstOncs, oyster pearls, ocean pcb-
/ bcs, nuggets, petrliied stones, Opals,
/ amethysts and comedians are dearly
/ priced, and in jewels old designs, such
as wings, claws, spurs, foils, cubes,
and the like, obtained or purchased
under strange circumstances.
There is no fetch like a luck-ponny.
Let u sad-eyed newsboy sell YOU
paper on "a dismal night when no
stars give light" when the heavens are
/ weeping. the winds wailing and the
/ gas lamps flicker, and if he crosses
/ Your palm with an OLD com make it
your fetch, and straghtvay it be-
comes possessed with the magic of
! DesdemOna's handkerchief. Find
! dime and let left-haudcd, blue-eyed
smith engrave snake in the act of
swallowing itself, tail first, and YOU
have the Talmudic emblem as old as
superstition itself. A fetch TO be
magical must have been consecrated
! by uathos, valor, generosity or some
geutler sentiment The fancy comes
to society Indirectly from the stage,
for actors, next TO negroes and mari
nerS. are of all professions the most
supcrstitious.
Mrs LaugtrY wears on one of her
! long, tapering fingers turquoise as
| big and beautiful as The gem Shylock
mourncd for. The ring and she are
Iuscparable There is never glove
SO snug that it cannot be coaXed over
! the solitaire, and on the stage, when
/ i, might be considered poor taste to
wear it in view, the stone is turned
/ towards the palm or dropped in the
/ bosom of her bodice. Both the GIFT
and wish were bestowed by royalty.
Mime, Cayalazzi has small ivory
| crucitix, the gift of her dying mother,
who babe her cherish it with reverence
/ and burn taper before it whenever
! tie way seemed dark and dreary.
! In her stateroom on the ocean mad
! winds and wild waves have no
terror for her while burns the sacred
taper at the foot of the ivory
! cross and in the theatre no earthly
power could induce her to go before
/ the footlights until her deyotiOus had
been made. Her husband, Charles
! Mapleson. has ceased to laugh at her,
and almost believes that the light of
the cross and the light Of the tiny dip
light her pretty feet through the in
uIcacies of the dance
Sarah BeInhardt has an antique
! girdle made of medallions, on which
are the signs of zodiac in superb chas-
lug. The zone was gift from Napo-
! leon, who received it from AbGallah
Bev, OF Egypt. She is never without
| il; sometimes it is worn about her
| dress aud sometimes around her neck.
| 1t holds the gathers of house and
stage dresses and always encirclcs her
night-robc Aside from the worship
| of the gjrdle, she loves u knife, "be-
cause it cuts and is truc-cr cruelty
| true In all great undertakings she
| keeps blade in her hand or
/ before her eyes as a reminder that
| failure may be mended but never made
/ perfect,
Mary Anderson loves a pearl be-
cause 1t is pure and cold Campanini
| pins his faith to a prune, and there is
/ fruit of the black, sticky CONNECTION
may not be found in his vest pocket.
| Ellen Terry's fetch is bottle with n
patent stop which in never empty,
because the cork remains. Nine
Paul likes the ivy because it clings and
| Is POISONOUS, and the leaf is "a fayorite
| DIES gu with her.
d gby Bell has horror Of open
! drawers on open doors, and no matter
where he is. Il e temptation to "shut
! up is irresistible. On his way to the
stage he positively will not pass an
! opeu door.
There is u little lady in Chicago,
the wife of "a popular singer, who is
never without her dagger. The blade
is as true a bit of steel as ever was
tempered, and the weapon is worn with
| every style of costume. One night it
came near trailing blood. Her hus-
| band was on the stage, singing and
playing the part of lover to a beauti-
! tul soprano. There was a little more
| fervor i'm the work than the wife liked,
and. leaving her box, she ran around
ON the stage and waited for the couple
in the 0. p, entrance. Fortunately the
husband was the first to meet the jeal-
Gus little wretch, but the third act was
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